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Tuesday, February 28, 2006

1B is Pretty Impressive!

So 16-year-old Alex Ostrovsky got lucky the other day. Nope, not that way, but maybe he thinks this is even better: the Michigan kid's download of Coldplay's "Speed of Sound" from Apple's iTunes Music Store represented the Store's one billionth download. Ostrovsky, of West Bloomfield Township, Mich., scored a 20-inch iMac, 10 fifth-generation iPods, and a $10,000 iTunes gift card from Apple.

Apple was in such a celebratory mood that it also said it would create a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music in Ostrovsky's name.

"Over one billion songs have now been legally purchased and downloaded around the globe, representing a major force against music piracy and the future of music distribution as we move from CDs to the Internet," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, in a statement.

Apple launched the iTunes Music store three years ago. Apple now offers music videos and video downloads of popular TV shows like "Desperate Housewives."

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Co-founder of Dynamic Signal - internet start-up with the mission to enable scale in word of mouth and social marketing. I am an Internet junkie, living in Chicago, focused on how the worlds of advertising, online media, and entertainment converge to drive meaningful changes in our cultures, behaviors and economies. One of the first employees at Influentials.net, Adify, comScore Media Metrix, and eScan. Deep background in understanding and driving deep understandings around consumer behaviors online and building massive data collection and discovery platforms to enable effective and efficient mining for undiscovered consumer trends, attitudes, and opinions. Driven by a never ending drive for understanding and creativity.